Show TALKED TO JUROR HELD IN CONTEMPT Arthur Wallace of Eureka Is Fined 75 by Judge Lewis V HE SPOKE OF COMPROMISE V S l V That Coal ConI Company offered of or fried to Settle With flit nn i anston ton Undertaker cl Who hmo Sued Because he told tol a Juror during tho the of a II ernie case that a compromise had hall been offered Arthur Wallace a Eureka undertaker was fined 75 76 for fon contempt of court b by Judge Lewis yes yes- Wallace was an expert expertness w ll- ll ness nesa for the Iho plaintiff In the case of oC Henry against the tho Union Pacific Coal company compan which was disposed disposed dis this posed of or some somo time line ago in Iii Judge Lewis' Lewis court sued the coal company for Cor funeral expenses of miners who were killed In the e company's I I mine at W wyo o in m 1 mua 03 no lIe sued for Cot and the Iho jur Jury re returned returned returned re- re turned a verdict for During the lie trial of or the case Wallace met George Geurge Dwyer a Juror on Main street They had hail been friends from front childhood anti and the they stopP stopped ll to talk The court had hail given cn the he JUl Jury the usual order to refrain front from talking of or the case caso before dismissing the lie men for forlie forthe the lie day During Durin the he conversation Wallace remarked to DW Ol that lint the tho company had bath offered to compromise the case caso for 01 V V V J 1 1 Did Not Concur Nothing was said of the matter mailer an and while no evidence was shown slown to lo the court that thai Wallace tried Hied to the Juror tho the court was vas satisfied that there was grounds for Cor the charge of contempt hon the verdict was announced an an- announced an- an the polling pulling of the jUl jury showed showed show show- ed that Dwyer did not nol concur and onel he lie made matIe the remark Inadvertently to another juror that the verdict was not notz much z more than the compromise of of- ferell V V Several days later Ju Judge ge Lewis Leivis heard of or the he remark an and sent for tor Dwer asking SkinS him how he lie knew there had been a compromise offer Dwyer stated that Wallace Vallace had told him him and apul related tile tho circumstances The court placed the lie matter In the hands of ot the district attorn attorney y for action ac ac- ac- ac tion and antI Wallace Vallace was summoned Into court He appeared Tuesday and anti asked asked ask ask- ed eni for a continuance until yesterday when he lie was fined tined |